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Hillside On Friday.

Thanks to Dave for organising, GM for sorting a great deal with Hillside for all of us, and to my playing partners StuC, Bigfoot and Upside down for great company and for putting up with my display of nearly every bad golf shot in the book today (only one shank though!)
Stu and Ben gave us a thorough shallacking of 8&6, just shows what a great course it is when you still enjoy it
Wind absolutely brutal, and those fairway bunkers!!!!! Visited sand on 8 of the first 11 holes
Congrats to Jimbob for the overall win, but a special mention to Liverbirdie for 35 points off 6, great golf today
 
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What a superb 2 days. First of all, thank you so much Virtuocity for taking all of this on, I've had a great time all the way through KoK 2014. Living where I do I was able to get to 3 of the qualifiers so I've now had 5 rounds (if you include Wallasey) at really good golf courses that I would never had played otherwise, and I've played with about 10 or 12 new forumers that I hadn't met before.


Some thanks and some thoughts in no particular order:

Thanks to Fish, Pokerjoke and Jimbob for organizing the qualifiers that I played at.


Thanks to Valentino for the invite to Wallasey, that's a cracking course, and thanks to Rick and Robin for the company round there yesterday. A good time had by all.


Thank you Fish for this moment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKYdYSIbflw


Rick, if you're going to order a curry that advertises itself as "... for the pro in the Indian cuisine. Cooked using the ripest bonnet chillies ..." then you really shouldn't start asking for some yoghurt after half a dozen mouthfuls!


Paperboy's "I'm just having one more" demonstration of willpower. Until 2am.

The mass photo on the first tee, fantastic to see so many people there for the final.


Thanks to Scott, Dave & Dave for the company today, a good time had by all even if it wasn't always the quality of our golf cheering us up.


And Hillside in the wind, off the 6500 blue tees! It chewed almost all of us up and spat us out, some of those holes on the back nine were beasts today. For those that weren't there, the 4th and the 16th are exactly the same length (183 on the card). It was 7I on one and driver on the other!


See you all for KoK 2015 :whoo:
 
Just back from an exhausting 12 mile journey home. Them pubs don't half take it out of you!!

many thanks to dave, gm and hillside for organising a great event. :clap:

Also thanks to my playing partners for putting up with what was an awful back 9 for me :( but the fun we had more than made up for the dodgy golf.

ps can't believe no-ones mentioned fish's solitary point..... :rofl:
 
Oxfordcomma said:
What a superb 2 days. First of all, thank you so much Virtuocity for taking all of this on, I've had a great time all the way through KoK 2014. Living where I do I was able to get to 3 of the qualifiers so I've now had 5 rounds (if you include Wallasey) at really good golf courses that I would never had played otherwise, and I've played with about 10 or 12 new forumers that I hadn't met before.


Some thanks and some thoughts in no particular order:

Thanks to Fish, Pokerjoke and Jimbob for organizing the qualifiers that I played at.


Thanks to Valentino for the invite to Wallasey, that's a cracking course, and thanks to Rick and Robin for the company round there yesterday. A good time had by all.


Thank you Fish for this moment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKYdYSIbflw


Rick, if you're going to order a curry that advertises itself as "... for the pro in the Indian cuisine. Cooked using the ripest bonnet chillies ..." then you really shouldn't start asking for some yoghurt after half a dozen mouthfuls!


Paperboy's "I'm just having one more" demonstration of willpower. Until 2am.

The mass photo on the first tee, fantastic to see so many people there for the final.


Thanks to Scott, Dave & Dave for the company today, a good time had by all even if it wasn't always the quality of our golf cheering us up.


And Hillside in the wind, off the 6500 blue tees! It chewed almost all of us up and spat us out, some of those holes on the back nine were beasts today. For those that weren't there, the 4th and the 16th are exactly the same length (183 on the card). It was 7I on one and driver on the other!


See you all for KoK 2015 :whoo:
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Ben, that's a video of someone at Go Ape. :D

Im looking forward to this Fish Video, If it looks as good as it sounds...:D
 
davemc1 said:
ps can't believe no-ones mentioned fish's solitary point..... :rofl:
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Hmm, on the back 9 young man and only 1 less than you :smirk:

So, with that said, I have For Sale 1 putter, hardly used, in fact it was only used once on the back 9 (10th) for the solitary point I amassed in the most brutal wind trying to hit the narrowest of fairways with rough, and not your local club nice and level dense 2"-3" evenly cut rough we complain about, this was wild, thick, long and punishing and almost impossible to dig out, that's if you were lucky to find it even though you knew you were only a couple of feet from the fairway :angry:

My 2-days started at Wallasey with Martin (Valentino), Rick (Rickg) and Ben (Oxfordcomma) for a knock around a very wet & windy Wallasey. It was the worse and most testing conditions I'd played in at Wallasey, a great course but when in great company it always makes for a good day though, although my attempt at taking a shot halfway down a 60ft steep embankment on the 17th saw me flop the ball 3ft in the air to the right and then as I lost my footing, I duly followed it further down the hill :rofl: No doubt more video fame to come :o

With only a curry eaten from my long day travelling to and playing at Wallasey, which stayed with me for less than a couple of hours due to my body disagreeing and rejecting the ever popular named, Jäger Bombs, a welcome breakfast was scoffed and off it was to Hillside.

I started really well, the 1st 6 holes saw me hitting the fairways, landing mostly where I wanted on the doglegs, putting for pars but getting a little caught out by the greens but scoring consistently, but then we started to really feel and experience the wind as we ventured further into the course. The 7th was supposed to be the most straight forward of par3's, but with a 2-club wind and watching a 9i go through the green, I tried to take something off my selected 8i and just quit on it firing it into the tall pines to the right and finding it right at the base with no shot, so my 1st blob :( I then hit what everyone thought was a god drive down the 8th with a slight fade to take on the dogleg, it was marginally to the right of the fairway in what looked like the thin wispy grass and thought nothing of being able to walk up to it, nope, lost ball :angry: So it was onto the 9th trying to put those last 2 holes out of my head, I hit a short but decent low drive into the wind but it was tight on the left side of the fairway and this hole was weird and jumped off to the left after the fairway comes to a 'dead end' and in a moment of madness I decided to take on the corner, I failed, dug it out of the rough into a bit more rough further up, then up to the green but the chip needed to go in, it didn't!

So after what I thought was a good steady start, the course turned on me and kicked me in the nether regions for a miserable 9 points, but 1 more than 1 of my playing partners at this point :whistle:

I managed to get my putter and pencil out on the 10th :whoo: But then as the course then takes a completely different stunning look with a backdrop of sand dunes, tall pines and knee high grasses accompanied with the prevailing brutal wind off these blues where the yardages matched or bettered the whites, was a task too far for my ability :(

I was struggling off the tee and it didn't matter what I tried to stop it going right, I just ended up further left, and when I did occasionally drive 1 down the narrowest of fairways on the back 9, I either took on too much club for my 2nd shot in an attempt to caress my putter again, who felt deserted 1sm142deserted.gif

Unlike many at hillside I think I managed to play the Birkdale also so I got real value for money, cheers Mike & Dave :thup: Their is also now a lone white ball on the range amongst all the yellows ones after a fantastic hook on the 18th tee saw me shouting Fore at Alan Hansons house just in case he was in pottering around in his garden :rofl: In fact, I think they should rename the course now to the Hillside Sea Life Centre as their are lots of little white balls with blue fishes on them everywhere laughing.jpg

The 18th was 1 of only a couple of holes on the back 9 I bothered to take 3 off the tee and I boomed my next drive right down the middle, another great 3w off the deck saw me just in front of the greenside bunker (I can do it), but with the adrenalin pumping with the thought of not only finishing a hole and getting my hands on my putter once more, and more importantly knowing I could get 1 more point more than Davey's 2, I knifed my wedge into the bunker cry.gif

10 points, 9 of them in the first 6 holes with a solitary point on the back 9, but, I came off that course feeling great, I have never enjoyed such company, banter and laughs on a golf course, and for that I thank a huge thanks go to the Hammer, Crazy Face & Davey, it was a pleasure lads and you all made the difference on a great well organised King of Kings meet organised superbly by Dave :thup:

Congratulations to James, winning with a nett 83 I think, that shows how tough it was out their and also well done to Peter, Liverpool now have a trophy this year :smirk:

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Valentino said:
Oh it was in doubt alright, there is man shot a gross score better than the KOK winners net score
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So he must be he winner then :confused:or was it someone not in the final:rolleyes::rolleyes:




Reminds me of the time I beat our scratch club champ by playing after the comp and got a better score:rofl:
 
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Funny, in the photos it all looks so still and calm!

Great write ups lads and thanks to Dave for organising the event and to Mashley for the Camberley round and all who helped at other venues!
 
sandmagnet said:
Sounds like you had a right good laugh fish,and that's the main aim:thup:
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You had to laugh or it would have been sole destroying, Crazy Face said he would have walked in on the turn if it had been raining due to his 8 points, thankfully he stayed out and we saw him have a decent back 9 running in some great pars. There was at least 2 holes where none of us in our group scored on a hole, a complete group blob and there was 1 other hole where our 27 handicap bandit who came out of the traps firing on all cylinders but burned out on the turn along with me, was the only person in our 4-ball to score with a solitary point, it was very tough, too tough for me with that wind, but I enjoyed it.
 
CMAC said:
So he must be he winner then :confused:or was it someone not in the final:rolleyes::rolleyes:
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It was Liverbirdie who was unfortunately not in the final. Superb round of golf he's had in that wind!

Feel a bit of a fraud coming out on top with two 9's on the card, especially as it was on count back!

Thanks again to Dave for organising all of this, wouldn't have got anywhere without his persistence. Hope he enjoyed his long drive home after a 5+ hour round and a hangover.

Great to see everybody again, and thanks to lads I played with. Looking forward to the same again next year!
 
 
jimbob.someroo said:
It was Liverbirdie who was unfortunately not in the final. Superb round of golf he's had in that wind!

Feel a bit of a fraud coming out on top with two 9's on the card, especially as it was on count back!

Thanks again to Dave for organising all of this, wouldn't have got anywhere without his persistence. Hope he enjoyed his long drive home after a 5+ hour round and a hangover.

Great to see everybody again, and thanks to lads I played with. Looking forward to the same again next year!
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You won though Jim- well done:whoo:
 
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